Unit V:

World War I and Europe in Crisis

Unit V Calendar

The "important guideposts" for Chapter 26 are:

The economic, strategic, and cultural forces driving the New Imperialism.
The search for strategic advantage among European nations and the creation of opposing alliance systems.
The immediate origins and course of the Great War (World War I).
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that permanently swept away the monarchy and created the world’s first viable Communist state.
The Versailles Treaty and associated treaties that ended the war, but left a very difficult legacy that threatened the post-war order in Europe.

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The "important guideposts for Chapter 27 are:

Economic and political disorder in the post-Great War years.
The establishment of the Soviet Union’s far-reaching political and economic experiment.
Mussolini’s Fascist Italy.
French efforts to enforce the Versailles Treaty, leading to the Ruhr crisis of 1923.
Britain’s first Labor Party government and the General Strike of 1926.
The struggle of the successor states of eastern Europe.
The Weimar Republic’s efforts to create a stable, unthreatening Germany.

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The dark side of nationalism - the rise of extremists on the left (Communism) and right (Facism)

The "important guideposts for Chapter 28 are:

Financial panic and the Great Depression in the United States and Europe.
Coalition governments of the Left and the Right in the National Government of Britain and the Popular Front of France.
The Nazi seizure of power in Germany and its effects.
Central economic planning in the Soviet Five Year Plan and Italian Fascist "syndicalism."
The dark side of Soviet Communism, particularly the Great Purges of the army and the party.

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